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Jury finds woman guilty of immigration document fraud
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Posted on Dec 08 2011
A federal jury yesterday found a woman guilty of immigration document fraud when she lied in her petition for her second husband, a Bangladeshi national, that she has never filed a similar petition before.
The trial of 42-year-old Rowena Agnes Urumelog began on Monday and deliberations stated late Tuesday afternoon. At 11:10am yesterday, the court read the jurors’ verdict, siding with the prosecution’s contention that Urumelog deliberately lied in her petition for her second husband as she had also filed an immigration petition for her first husband.
Urumelog will be sentenced on March 9, 2012, at 9am.
U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona granted defense attorney Mark Hanson’s request to allow Urumelog to remain free on bail until her sentencing.
Assistant U.S. attorney Beverly McCallum prosecuted the case.
Hanson refused to speak to the media after the hearing except to say that he will be filing post-trial motions.
According to the U.S. government, on Urumelog’s immigration petition for her second husband, Abdullah Al Mamun, on July 6, 2009, Urumelog, a U.S. citizen, falsely declared that she had never before petitioned for him or another alien. Actually, Urumelog had filed on Jan. 22, 2003 an immigration petition for her first husband, Md. Jahangir Alam, at the time a Bangladeshi national.
